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Foofah: Transforming Data By Example

Summary: Data wrangling is automated by example. Foofah synthesizes transformation programs from a small input-output example by efficiently searching the space of operations, outperforming Wrangler with about 60% less user effort. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hd996d48063b932bc
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2017
Pagerank
0.00011964111
Overall Rank
1,115 | 92.51%
DOI
10.1145/3035918.3064034

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jin_sigmod17,
        title = {{Foofah: Transforming Data By Example}},
        author = {Jin, Zhongjun and Anderson, Michael R. and Cafarella, Michael and Jagadish, H. V.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3064034},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3064034},
        year = {2017}
}

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2,745 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations 2018 VLDB 8.0668395e-05
3,912 Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets 2018 SIGMOD 6.9306061e-05
4,235 Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search 2021 VLDB 6.713221e-05
4,424 Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns 2020 VLDB 6.6048065e-05
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7,695 Trinity: An Extensible Synthesis Framework for Data Science 2019 VLDB 5.4756857e-05
7,812 Auto-Formula: Recommend Formulas in Spreadsheets using Contrastive Learning for Table Representations 2024 SIGMOD 5.4486106e-05
7,928 TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations 2025 VLDB 5.4254488e-05
8,025 Foofah: A Programming-By-Example System for Synthesizing Data Transformation Programs 2017 SIGMOD 5.4047151e-05
8,160 PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage 2020 VLDB 5.3871591e-05
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10,112 Data Augmentation for ML-driven Data Preparation and Integration 2021 VLDB 5.0789354e-05
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10,526 Guardrail: Automated Integrity Constraint Synthesis From Noisy Data 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,869 DeepPrep: An LLM-Powered Agentic System for Autonomous Data Preparation 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,270 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,805 DataRinse: Semantic Transforms for Data preparation based on Code Mining 2023 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,850 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,258 Constraint-based Explanation and Repair of Filter-based Transformations 2018 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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95 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00034382643
180 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.0002654471
514 Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System 2013 CIDR 0.00017006745
1,094 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.0001205355
2,244 Characterizing Schema Mappings via Data Examples 2010 PODS 8.7653687e-05
3,587 Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples 2012 VLDB 7.1881077e-05
7,758 Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System 2013 VLDB 5.4581929e-05
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